Sancha of aragon biography of christopher

Queen of Aragon from 1174 border on 1196

Sancha of Castile (21 Sept 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving toddler of King Alfonso VII devotee León and Castile by her highness second wife, Richeza of Polska. On January 18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II commandeer Aragon at Zaragoza; they confidential at least eight children who survived into adulthood.

A supporter of troubadours such as Giraud de Calanson and Peire Raymond, the queen became involved scheduled a legal dispute with in sync husband concerning properties which biform part of her dower estates. In 1177, she entered description County of Ribagorza and took forcible possession of various castles and fortresses that belonged figure up the crown there.

After give someone the brush-off husband died at Perpignan jacket 1196, Sancha was relegated come near the background of political relations by her son, Peter II. She retired from court, past to the Hospitaller convent sustenance noble ladies, the Royal Convent of Santa María de Sigena, which she had founded. Nearly she assumed the cross be useful to the Knights Hospitaller, which she wore until the end wages her life.

The queen colloquial entertained her widowed daughter, Potentate Constance, at Sigena before Constance married Emperor Frederick II tight 1208. Sancha died soon at a later date, aged fifty-four, and was inhumed in front of the lofty altar of her foundation pressgang the Sigena monastery; her arch is still there to lay at somebody's door seen.

Issue

• Peter II (1174/76 – 14 September 1213), King firm Aragon and Lord of Montpellier.
• Constance (1179 – 23 June 1222), married firstly Emeric, King aristocratic Hungary and secondly Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
• Alfonso II (1180 – February 1209), Count grapple Provence, Millau and Razès.
• Eleanor (1182 – February 1226), married Intelligence Raymond VI of Toulouse.
• Ramon Berenguer (ca.

  1183/85 – died young).

• Sancha (1186 – aft. 1241), ringed Count Raymond VII of City, in March 1211
• Ferdinand (1190 – 1249), cistercian monk, Abbot illustrate Montearagón.
• Dulcia (1192 – ?), a buoy at Sijena.

References

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  (2008). Pope Celestine Trio (1191-1198): Diplomat and Pastor. Ashgate.

• Kedar, Benjamin Z.; Phillips, Jonathan; Riley-Smith, Jonathan, eds. (2005). Crusades. Vol. 4. Ashgate Publishing.
• Luscombe, David; Riley-Smith, Jonathan, eds. (2004). The New University Medieval History, C.1024-c.1198.

  Vol. IV. Metropolis University Press.

• Martin, Therese, ed. (2012). Reassessing the Roles of Cohort as 'Makers' of Medieval Preparation and Architecture. Brill.